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Subject: Re: Mate in 1 - but Fritz 6 needs 1 hour!!!

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 23:45:06 08/11/00

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On August 12, 2000 at 00:57:46, Angrim wrote:

>On August 11, 2000 at 20:30:53, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>But your position is an easy one. Try this one with your favorite chess programs
>>and tell me what happens:
>>
>>
>>[D]8/PPPPPpPk/3rq3/1b1r2b1/2BR1B2/3RQ3/pppppPpK/8 w
>>
>>
>>I confess that mine gets nuts on this one.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>tried this with my new program, which does not extend on converting moves,
>only on checks.
>
>First it checks each move with pn-search for easy mates, and finds that
>e3e5, f4g3, d4xd5, h2g1, and h2g3 all lose simply.
>
>Then the regular search takes 6 seconds to finish a 2 ply deep search,
>and favors Qxe6 with pv:
> e3xe6 g5xf4 d4xf4 f7xe6<q d3xd5<q d6xd5<q c4xd5<q e6xd5<q h2xg2<q h7xg7<q
><q means the move was in the qsearch.
>after another 3 seconds it finished searching 3 ply deep and favored
>g8=Q with a huge score. This move remained the favorite for the next
>4 ply until I got bored and stopped it after ply 7 and 630 seconds.
>pv at ply 7 was g7g8q h7xg8 e7e8q g8g7 f4e5 d5xe5 e3xe5 e6xe5 e8xe5 g5f6 etc
>
>Angrim



This is good. I suspect you limit the qsearch, do you?


    Christophe



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